In Spirited Joy
by Diana Mary Sharpton
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Title
In Spirited Joy
Artist
Diana Mary Sharpton
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Photograph - Digital Art/painted Photography
Description
Spring Gerbera daisies found in the Dallas Arboretum, Dallas, Texas captured with a Nikon camera and lens. An painterly overly has been added.
History of Gerbera Daisies:
Gerberas or gerbera daisies are perennial flowering plants native to South Africa, America, and Asia. Other common names of these plants include Transvaal daisy, Barberton daisy, and African daisy.
These plants are classified under the botanical family Asteraceae – the same family in which sunflowers, asters, and daisies belong. The name gerbera refers to the entire Gerbera genus. It was named after renowned German botanist Traugott Gerber by Jan Frederik Gronovius. Gronovius is a Dutch botanist who discovered the flower in South Africa in 1737. To this day, it was unclear why he named the flower after Gerber.
One of the earliest and most common gerbera species is the Gerbera jamesonii. It was discovered in 1889 in Transvaal, South Africa, by Scotsman Robert Jameson.
Dubbed as the fifth of the most popular flower worldwide, gerbera has prominent flowering heads called disks that are comparable to that of sunflowers. These disks are surrounded by satin-like petals or rays, which come in lively and charming colors, such as pink, white, yellow, orange, and red. Although there are miniature varieties, most gerbera daisy flowers are large and grow up to 8 inches in diameter.
While gerberas originally came from South Africa, these crowd-favorite ornamentals are now ubiquitous across the globe. They are often grown in home gardens and use as cut flowers for gerbera flower arrangements or bouquets. They are easy to grow in most planting conditions, but they do not thrive well in areas with extremely low temperatures, or where heavy rainfall is frequent.
Most gerbera flowers bloom in spring and summer though gerbera daisies flower delivery is typically available year-round from a range of floral design studios souring from specialist growers.
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